correction, 14 ttt
Mills said:How does this affect those of us that are lifetime VIP mebmers? Will we also be required to pay $15/year? I am assuming so but I just want to have you clearify that.
Also, if I happen to sell a sled using the sight and then want to sell parts that are laying around in the garage, do I have to pay the $35/month or $350/yr to sell the parts laying around in the garage?
Mills
BETHEVIPER said:correction, 14 ttt
Netefrog said:Just out of curiosity I'm wondering what guys like YAMMIEGOD and MrViper700 think about this. Guys who are not "VIP" members but deffinantly very important people on this site who are now forced to pay a fee to sell bits and peices after everything they have done for the members and this site in general?
Not trying to stir the pot, just curious..
JDViper said:I have been here for just over a year and have gained a ton of info from this site. I appreciate everything the quality members have to offer. I try to add my .02 when i can be of any help. I have purchased my first sled to part out and soon after became a VIP member. I also have bumped (TTT) a couple times because my (one) parts thread has been a few pages back. I see no problem with becoming a VIP if I am trying to make a little money off the site. I will be only parting out one sled a year because of the new rules. I am fine with that. I'd like to do more, but I dont have the amount of parts moving that I would need to justify an advertisement. Im ok with it all for the most part. I'd like to do more but if thats the new rules, then so be it. This is YOUR choice Mr. Sled. You asked i become a VIP to part out and I did it right away. No problem... Just before I started this reply I went to the classifieds and counted the posts on the first page. 24 posts and 8 of them from ONE member. I didnt check them all, but the ones I did check, you can guess what the majority of the posts were. TTT!!! Thanks for all you do here and I (among many others) appreciate the hard work ALL of the volunteers put in.
Sled Dog said:If those non VIP members get caught using PM to sell parts there is going to be some serious consequences.
BETHEVIPER said:The bump thing your talking about has always agravated me which is why I try to keep everything in on large post. From time to time, I'll post a separate thread to move something I just got in to get the larger parts of it moving. On the 4 stroke side I keep a few threads going, some I just let phaze out. I bump them once in a while. One day I counted 13 threads TTT of one seller directly after I had added to my thread. I find it easier to have the bulk of my parts in one thread, I can send others there with a single link. I do this by accually helping people with their sleds, not just selling. On both sides of this, I have had people I know I have spent time helping buy a part from someone else to save 10bucks(wish I kept a list so I could make sure and never help them again) to the other side I have people tell me they could have bought it cheaper from someone else but I helped them out so they bought it from me.
I think the 15$ to sell off your sledparts is a bargain, go sell 1000$ worth of parts on ebay and tell me what they charged you?
this will decrease the amount of sellers for smaller things like a cover, winshield, helix etc. Maybe you could change it to if your going to sell more than 150$ worth of stuff, you must be a vip. This would allow the members the chance to buy that 25$ helix from someone as well as show that non vip member just how fast stuff sells on this site making him more apt to become a member and sell off the rest of his sled when he is ready. I know I will miss those guys that have only posted a few times that have sold me thousands of dollars worth of stuff over the years that now just wont bother.
Thats all my thoughts, usless as they are.
Thanks for the site and if you profit from it, GOOD! it is your site, your work, your profit should be yours. Never, never let anyone tell you you should not profit and that greed is evil. Evil is someone who wants you to not profit from your work.
"Money is the root of all good" Rand
SX_SLAYER said:BUT I ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTLY HATE how when i post a classified ad, within 2 hours it has been shoved to the bottom by ONE (not saying any names) member who insists on bumping 8.... E-I-G-H-T of his own threads. this has happened multiple times...
how am i or anyone else supposed to get rid of anything when we have people doing this!?
A couple of bucks said:Mabey the classifieds can be limited to one post/bump per day. Just a thought.